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NewsHour” may not be quite as high-profile as “60 Minutes,” but the president’s interview with Jim Lehrer today was at least as interesting as Sunday’s appearance on CBS, if not more so.

LEHRER: Mr. President, do you have a feeling of personal failure about Iraq right now?

BUSH: I’m frustrated at times about Iraq because I understand the consequences of failure…. Look, I had a choice to make, Jim, and that is - one - do what we’re doing. And one could define that maybe a slow failure.
I’m curious when, exactly, Bush came to the realization that the plan he’s been defending for the last four years was marked by failure, albeit a slow one. As recently as three months ago, when Democrats running in the midterm elections characterized the policy this way, Bush described them as weak, wrong, and dangerous. Now, he’s come around to the same conclusion they did. I’m sure an apology will be forthcoming.

LEHRER: Is there a little bit of a broken egg problem here, Mr. President, that there is instability and there is violence in Iraq - sectarian violence, Iraqis killing other Iraqis, and now the United States helped create the broken egg and now says, okay, Iraqis, it’s your problem. You put the egg back together, and if you don’t do it quickly and you don’t do it well, then we’ll get the hell out.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yeah, you know, that’s an interesting question. I don’t quite view it as the broken egg; I view it as the cracked egg…where we still have a chance to move beyond the broken egg.

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